How to fix or repair chairs with hickory splint type seats or backs?
True Splint is obtained from native ash and hickory and from tropical palm trees. The native splint is cut from selected second-year growth timber with straight grain. Ash splints, machine cut to a uniform width, wear very well. Hickory splints often vary slightly in width, giving a pleasing effect. The tropical rattan palm tree from which materials like splint are made grows in the Indian Archipelago, China, India, Ceylon, and the Malay Peninsula. Without its leaves it is known commercially as rattan. The outer bark, stripped in different widths, is sold as cane; the core is split into round and flat strips of different thicknesses and widths, and is called reed. Rattan Reed Splint is a flat, woody material cut from the inside of the rattan palm, and used for splint basketry and weaving country style chair seats. Traditionally splint was oak, ash, or hickory; today flat reed and flat oval reed are often substituted. The Rustic old Hickory Chair above, we only did the Seat. PAPER Splin
